{"id":23,"date":"2008-06-16T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-06-16T20:55:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T01:55:54","slug":"you-cant-take-pictures-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/you-cant-take-pictures-here\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t take pictures here"},"content":{"rendered":"

This happened earlier this spring, but I didn’t have my blog going then, and I am just getting around to posting now.<\/p>\n

So what constitutes public property? I was wandering around work looking for things to take pictures of near by. I saw a couple of motorcycles parked at the side of a building, so I walked down a sidewalk between the Law Enforcement Center (a county building) and a parking lot. I had just taken this picture :
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when a police officer asked what I was doing. I said I was just taking pictures, and she said it was private property. I politely told her sorry, I thought that the land surrounding a county building would be public. She pointed at the one arm bandit gate on the parking lot and said this parking lot was private property and you had to have a parking pass to be here. I didn’t feel like arguing with the officer, but I didn’t follow the argument, so I left.<\/p>\n

I am starting to hear of all sorts of stories about photographers getting hassled taking pictures. Don’t even think about using a tripod. See Scott Kelby’s story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I got directed to PhotoPermit.org<\/a> that has lots of stories and info about getting and trying to avoid being hassled by security guards or police.<\/p>\n

There is a great PDF on a photographers rights here<\/a>. Just don’t expect to be left alone for waving this paper around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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